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Director Andrew Stanton’s Wall-E will close the 21 st Tokyo Film Festival on October 26 th. The film will release in Japan in December with Disney distributing it. John Woo’s expensive period piece Red Cliff will open the festival.

Other movies making the news is the Atsuro Watabe debut feature in which he will star as well Kotaba no nai fuyu ( Echo of Silence). It will premier at the festival on October 18 th. The film will star Watabe as a man who cannot speak who interacts with a woman who has lost her memory. A theatrical release for the film is still to be decided.

Another picture Yomei ( Time Lost, Time Found ) a drama starring Nanako Marsushima as a physician diagnosed with breast cancer, will be showcased at the Japanese Eyes section for domestic films on October 18 th.

Sono Kido o totte ( Fusa ) is another film directed by Kon Ichikawa shot in Hi Vision for Fuji TV in 1993 will get its premier before its theatrical release. The film is based on a short story by Shugoro Yamamoto, the drama about an ambitious samurai played by Kiichi Nakai whose marriage plans are disrupted by a beautiful amnesiac woman was screened only at two venues upon release Venice Festival in 1993 and Rotterdam festival in 1994, but it never got a proper release after that.

Ichikawa died in 2008 after releasing Murder of the Inugami Clan two years before at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2006.